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KMail: Kontact Mail

KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager of K Desktop Manager (KDE). Features include:

IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support

secure logons with SSL, TLS or DIGEST-MD5

signing and encrypting of emails (both PGP and GnuPG are supported)

reading of HTML mails

anti-spam functions

supports all international character sets

powerful search and filter functions

spell checking

imports folders from many other mail clients

highly integrated with other KDE components

KOrganizer is the calendar and scheduling component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager of KDE.

KOrganizer provides management of events and tasks, alarm notification, web export, network transparent handling of data, group scheduling, import and export of calendar files and more. It is able to work together with a wide variety of groupware servers, for example Kolab, Open-Xchange, Citadel or OpenGroupware.org.

KOrganizer is fully customizable to your needs and is an integral part of the KDE PIM suite, which aims to be a complete solution for organizing your personal data. KOrganizer supports the two dominant standards for storing and exchanging calendar data, vCalendar and iCalendar.

KAddressbook is the contacts management component of Kontact, Features include: